I spring cleaned the kitchen today! I feel strangely lighter... currently having an argument though with Mr Dotsie, who doesn't see why we can't keep the fondue set he bought 6 years ago and we've never used. Because we need the space for sippy cups, that's why!

What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!

Not just today but on several occasions the newish trend for putting a message before the film on a DVD saying "by purchasing this DVD you are supporting your local film and tv industry. thank you!" First DVD I saw it on was kick-ass and it still makes me smile every time

If you can fill the unforgiving minute,With sixty seconds worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,And - which is more - you'll be a man my son.

Dotsie, I remember having a similar argument with my hubby about getting rid of a fondue set we'd never used.

Since Netflix recently put a bunch of Cartoon Network shows on instant view, the girls have been watching The Powerpuff Girls. Yesterday Thing 1 mentions how fun it would be to have some Powerpuff Girls dolls (she used to watch the show when she was really little, but it's all new to Thing 2). I'm thinking how unlikely it is you can buy Powerpuff Girls anything anymore. Hubby gets a thoughtful look on his face and says, "Wait a minute..." He goes up into the garage attic and, I kid you not, produces talking, light up, Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup, new in the boxes. Like a flipping magic trick! I asked him where those had come from and he told me that I bought them for him one year as a joke Christmas gift and that he'd always felt bad that they just got stuck up in the attic. I swear that I have no memory of buying those things, and if I did, I feel confident that I bought him real xmas gifts too. Unfortunately Bubble's speaker became detached, so she needs surgery. Hubby's pretty sure he can fix her, but he's not thrilled about working with those tiny wires. Poor guy, it's like he's being punished for a good deed. But, the girls are totally thrilled anyway.

“It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.”― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees:

this was yesterdays smile I got a lot done that day despite having the plague I cleared one of my store cards, cleared my credit card, wiped out a small chunk of my works account card and put a further £10 towards my holiday and another £10 into a day out I'm going to have with a friend at work in November (hopefully)